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To: Ilaine who wrote (99291)2/8/2005 12:25:56 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (3) of 793623
 
There were no "text files" in use by the TANG in the early 1970's. Surely you remember back to the days before computers.


It is difficult to keep partisanship out of this type of discussion but I am sincere in trying not to let it not interfere. Bush has been re-elected. He is my President. Whatever this is about will have no effect on George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. It is about getting to the bottom of a story. It is about CBS not doing what is needed to be done. If the documents were forged, they have to get to the bottom of it. There is an audit trail. If there is forgery and they used forged information - that is very serious stuff.

However, where they left it is that they could not authenticate the documents - but they did not authenticate them to be forgeries either.

Nevertheless, Word processors were very much in use in those days. Wang, DEC, Prime, NBI and a whole slew of other word processors were in use. IBM and other typewriter manufacturers also had typewriters that stored text (data) on magnetic devices. You could copy files from computers and word processors to floppy disks, which you could carry around with you. The military were early adopters of this technology.

I would also add that by 1970, every large business organization and most medium sized businesses used word processors.

According to news reports:

<<<<<<Marian Carr Knox told the Dallas Morning News after viewing copies of the disputed memos, "These are not real," and that "the information in here was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones." >>>>

None of this really matters except for history buffs 100 years from now who love to delve into small matters.
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